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Home and business owners looking to switch to solar energy can learn more through the Solarize Enfield program, which offers discounts on solar panel installations. On Saturday, homeowners Al and Denise Lancaster will offer a tour of their home, answer questions about solar energy and share their experience and decision to "go solar." The Lancasters decided to go solar after seeing a display at a home show in 2012. After filling out paperwork, the Lancasters watched as 21 solar panels were installed on their roof. Now, on average, the Lancasters typically pay $16 a month for their electric bill, for "supply charges," Al said. The tour will begin at 11 a.m. at 1...

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Home and business owners looking to switch to solar energy can learn more through the Solarize Enfield program, which offers discounts on solar panel installations.
On Saturday, homeowners Al and Denise Lancaster will offer a tour of their home, answer...

Greater efficiency, increased use of renewable energy sources and other measures could reduce New England's demand for natural gas enough to avert the need to build a new pipeline, an environmental advocacy group said in a report released Thursday.The...

An Old Saybrook company has sold a $107 million portfolio of land leases for wind power projects to a real estate investment trust based in Annapolis, Md.Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, a renewable energy financing company, is...

GRISWOLD — To Jim Bardia, the path to a better wind turbine is the same as the one to a faster race car.
It is incremental improvements here and there that shave seconds from a lap time and cents from a kilowatt hour.
Bardia, a former race car driver...

AVON — Solar power panels are set to go on the roofs of two schools and a town building after the plans cleared an important hurdle in July.
Those panels are expected to go on the roofs of Avon High School, Avon Middle School and the town's pubolic works...

The planning and zoning commission will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers, Town Hall, 820 Enfield St.
Below is the agenda as posted on the town website Thursday morning:
ENFIELD PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING
AGENDA
THURSDAY,...

It is thrilling to see that Connecticut Light & Power is feeling pressure from energy efficiency, conservation and renewable energy sources such as rooftop solar [Aug. 30, Page 1, "CL&P Seeks Higher Fee"]. This constructive energy...

Connecticut Light & Power is pushing a major change in how it calculates power bills to shore up sales in the face of pressure from energy efficiency, conservation and renewables like rooftop solar.Joining a push by electricity companies nationwide,...

With so much attention paid to gun safety and the budget, not much was heard about the environment in the 2013 session of the General Assembly. Much of what was in the news centered on a somewhat arcane debate whether the state weakened its commitment...

Aetna said Monday it is conducting finals tests on 975 solar panels that cover a field next to the insurer's Windsor office — doubling Aetna's solar energy capabilities in Connecticut.In conjunction with Earth Day on Monday, Aetna said the solar panels...

The same pathway that has put many in the seat of a new car — the lease — is taking off as a financial vehicle for homeowners who don't have tens of thousands of dollars sitting around to buy a rooftop solar-panel system outright.
And in Connecticut, a...

Energy costs in New England are too high in large part because there isn't enough transmission capacity to get electricity, natural gas and developing renewable energy sources such as hydro from there to here efficiently.
The burdensome energy costs in...

BET ON WORKERS
We must focus our efforts on the hundreds of small companies based in our state and especially manufacturing firms.
I propose an incentive for hires in the high-tech and manufacturing sectors to build the work force for the future....

MetLife and an arm of General Electric that finances energy projects have teamed up for the second time this year as investors in a major wind farm in the Great Plains.
This time, GE Energy Financial Services and MetLife Inc. joined Union Bank to...

Connecticut's "clean energy economy," consisting of wind turbine engineers, solar power installers, hydrogen-fueled engine manufacturers and other workers in "green" businesses, is growing but remains smaller than in other states, a...

Nearly 100 Connecticut middle school students got a firsthand look Wednesday at a promising new technology that might provide new sources of renewable energy.
The schoolchildren were touring Proton Energy Systems as part of the Connecticut Kids for...

Northeast Utilities said Wednesday that it is applying for $50 million to $75 million in federal stimulus funds to pay for half of a massive expansion of its energy conservation programs.
Electricity ratepayers would pick up the other half.
"The...

State of the State
February 3, 2010
By Governor M. Jodi Rell
Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Williams, members and guests:
We gather today to mark the opening of the 2010 legislative session and we do so at a time of continued challenge, continued...

When the Driscoll brothers established Phoenix Press in an old brick factory at the confluence of the Quinnipiac and Mill rivers in the early 1980s, they never considered the wind.
But the gusts and zephyrs will soon bring them money — as much as $35,000...